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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Love
God
Time
Strength
Religion
Man
Passion
Compassion
Defiance
Thought
Despair
Others
One Time
Religious
Religious Man
Greatest
Greatest Strength
Times
Person
Done
Holds
Who
Whose
Suffers
Harm
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad
Gossip
Everybody
Claims
No-One
Like
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Joseph Conrad
Others
Our
Carried
Ourselves
Must
Deliberately
Allow
Bounds
Beyond
Normal
Move
Order
Sensibility
Away
Deeply
War is a defeat for humanity.
Pope John Paul II
War
Humanity
Defeat
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
Zygmunt Bauman
Service
Freedom
Lost
Sight
Something
Individual
Come
Task
Help
Sociology
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.
Zygmunt Bauman
Life
You
Communication
Yourself
People
World
Humiliation
Crime
Live
Else
Dignified
Everyone
Everyone Else
About
Proper
Over
Gets
Just
Decent
Being
Door
Information
Next
Next Door
Compare
Comparison
Universal
Presented
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Blessing
Live
Just
Holy
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
Life
Doubt
Believe
Thinking
Slice
Everything
Ways
Easily
Both
Both Ways
Us
Two
Save
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Frederic Chopin
Happiness
Man
Happy
World
Long
Dream
Only
Never
Period
Him
Always
Very
Escape
Often
Cannot
Which
Granted
Brief
Why
Last
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
Irena Sendler
Good
Religion
People
Matter
Bad
Only
Divided
Nationality
Race
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Joseph Conrad
Life
Nothing
Enticing
More
Than
Sea
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad
Great
World
Fog
Blessed
Rule
Accomplished
Achievements
Warm
Who
Great Achievements
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad
Life
Faith
Strength
Nature
Man
Together
Grass
Earth
Draws
Blade
He
Spot
His
Whence
Which
Land
Rooted
Each
I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
Lech Walesa
Will
Knees
Talk
Prudence
Act
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
Lech Walesa
History
Will
Crushed
Out
Fingers
He
Puts
His
Hand
Wheel
Stop
Who
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
Marie Curie
Great
Science
Beauty
Think
Those
Am
Who
Among
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Saying
Will
Made
Those
Proper
Obscure
Clearer
Am
May
Place
Which
Now
Things
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Life
Man
Old
Too
Those
Out
Darker
More
Mysterious
He
Thus
Come
Perhaps
Call
Him
Another
Calls
Still
Dearer
Infinity
May
Sea
Growing
Growing Old
Deeply
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.
Jerzy Kosinski
Me
Soul
Rain
Clouds
Light
Weather
Negatively
Would
London
Strongly
My Soul
React
Affect
Cloudy
Raining
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad
Revolution
Humane
Unselfish
Leaders
Noble
Devoted
Passes
Begin
Intelligent
May
Just
Movement
Victims
Them
Natures
Away
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad
Life
Dreams
Fear
Dream
Perhaps
Just
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad
Man
Political
Passion
Action
Consistent
Outlook
Wins
Mostly
Himself
His
Friends
Literary
Prejudices
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.
Lech Walesa
Freedom
Technology
Communism
System
About
Directions
Individual
Individual Initiative
Individualism
Supported
Development
Economically
Politically
Century
Initiative
Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
Marie Curie
Work
Myself
Day
Broken
Sometimes
Other
On The Contrary
Fatigue
Spend
Would
Would-Be
Minute
Delicate
Had
Mass
Days
Concentrate
Most
Mixing
Rod
End
Contrary
Iron
Effort
Heavy
Boiling
Large
Whole
Nearly
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Universe
Finally
Sun
Shall
Himself
Center
Place
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II
Politics
World
Responsibility
Free
Example
Radical
Humane
Society
Changes
Democratic
Genuinely
Leave
America
Just
World Politics
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